http://www.stephencmassey.com/services daily 0.75 2012-11-27 http://www.stephencmassey.com/consultation daily 0.75 2016-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383428978545-PV71VFP5YV8NA7Y92CHP/IMG_6894.jpg Consultation Bible in Latin. [The Gutenberg Bible.] (Mainz, c. 1450-55). The first substantial printed book in the western world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383428935979-9697IU3LILASH9K3139X/IMG_6892.jpg Consultation John James Audubon. The Birds of America. (London, 1827-38) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383429031188-NLBZMBBRZLASPEIXM0XP/IMG_6891.jpg Consultation Declaration of Independence. Broadside First Printing. (Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 4 July 1776) http://www.stephencmassey.com/contact daily 0.75 2016-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1454797758433-1J0DAS2BUCU446UJTHDI/bookstores.png Contact Great Grandfather, Nassau Massey and his sons' bookshops in Cork and Dublin [c. 1890-1910] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383532466855-INMXOROFIX7BBR9TER6S/SCM_Grandfather.png Contact Grandfather, Charles Arthur Frederick Massey attending the sale at Sotheby's in 1928 of the manuscript of Alice in Wonderland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383974089537-A7G9YZUNJL501768TYLR/fatherMassey2.png Contact Father, Charles Dudley Massey attending the 1947 sale at Sotheby's of the Dyson Perrins -- Frere -- Doheny copy of the Gutenberg Bible https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383532806771-QQZZBPETCTL8QEG9KSYB/IMG_6819.jpg Contact http://www.stephencmassey.com/appraisals daily 0.75 2013-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1378681705302-JQAZ92BKF5E6RR5AK1XI/IMG_6863.jpg Appraisals Edwards of Halifax vellum binding on Speechly A treatise on the culture of the Pine Apple. (York, 1779) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1378681732463-5GYD5GE082ZHWQ6XPPLU/IMG_6881.jpg Appraisals Illuminated Manuscript Book of Hours, Ghent - Bruges school, c. 1480-85 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1378681792928-IY6U5GL6LN84D15T3F9T/IMG_6889.jpg Appraisals William Shakespeare. [The First Folio.] (London, 1623) http://www.stephencmassey.com/about daily 1.0 2023-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383426111656-QKZB6UXO9Q1V0WDR0I2U/IMG_6847.jpg About A fine copy of the first edition of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books including the rare dust jacket for the second volume. http://www.stephencmassey.com/auctioneer daily 0.75 2013-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1378683935019-GMZK9PZZG8ATUM4LX0ZU/IMG_6897.jpg Auctioneer Leonardo da Vinci. Autograph manuscript, The Codex Leicester. 36 leaves with c. 360 diagrams and drawings, c. 1506-08, with later additions, c. 1508-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383430900025-YQQIDBW0M8B55O28ALCL/IMG_6884.jpg Auctioneer Manuscript map. The John Barnwell Map of Southeastern North America. Cartouche signed and dated "W. Hammercon, 1721". The Chatsworth copy, one of two known. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383431475585-UEJSB881ECOS6RAPPL7F/IMG_6890.jpg Auctioneer Johann Sebastian Bach. Autograph musical manuscript. "Schmuecke dich, o liebe Seele". 11 leaves, [before 22 October 1724]. http://www.stephencmassey.com/qualifications daily 0.75 2023-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1389070767936-BLY20ISHCDCV07037594/Chatsworth-House.jpg Qualifications Chatsworth House, Chatsworth, UK. The ancestral library of the Dukes of Devonshire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383433158805-0J23BJPGRC6VLHJNNZQ8/Biltmore_Estate.jpg Qualifications Biltmore House, NC. A library containing Beaux Arts architectural works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383433407685-HAFU81A0EFG8HL6DOF40/20070821010018%21Clark_main.jpg Qualifications William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383433884018-383ET2LTH61XJQ75N0J6/post-32-1110816598.jpg Qualifications Shirburn Castle, UK. The ancestral library of the Earls of Macclesfield https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383433854302-WNP2O7VN4EQFZYKIT3KC/800px-Cliveden_Mansion%2C_Philadelphia%2C_HABS_PA-1184-88.jpg Qualifications Cliveden, PA. The library and archive of Benjamin Chew and his descendants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383433831275-XOJCGIY7G6X833XSEDS6/picture16.jpg Qualifications Wardington Manor, UK. The library of the 1st and 2nd Baron Wardington, comprising atlases, Bibles, incunabula and fine bindings http://www.stephencmassey.com/collection-analysis-development daily 0.75 2016-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383430291075-OVMI79EHXGMBY2A0SLFV/IMG_6862.jpg Collection Analysis & Development Rhoda Broughton. Second Thoughts. (London, 1880). Bound in original unglazed multicolored floral chintz cloth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383430267025-EY050XKN92P9UKE2V9V0/IMG_6882.jpg Collection Analysis & Development A group of Victorian Fiction titles. Fine copies in original publishers cloth or printed wrappers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1383430336831-Y0FKTCUKP9BRA2BM0JZO/IMG_6922.jpg Collection Analysis & Development John Gould. The Birds of Europe. (London, [1832] - 37) http://www.stephencmassey.com/news daily 0.75 2019-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1570510676014-YWUO91JCRPTZ1A9RYPUI/Screen+Shot+2019-10-07+at+9.47.51+PM.png Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/513ffe20e4b055c204680ce8/1570510182101-3VTULOWM00VQBUQCYHSL/Screen+Shot+2019-10-07+at+9.46.51+PM.png Press